Microservices Jobs in South London

Microservices
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 55 42
Rank change year-on-year +30 -13 -32
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Microservices 56 23 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 11.09% 3.48% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.79% 3.65% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 6
10th Percentile - £99,375 £71,250
25th Percentile £78,750 £110,938 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £125,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% +56.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £111,250 £132,500 £86,875
90th Percentile - - £88,125
London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 475 631 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 94.06% 95.61% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 119 201 314
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £86,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in South London

Microservices
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in South London over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in South London

Microservices
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South London region over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon +4 34 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Merton +13 19 £82,500 -24.14%
Bromley +2 2 - -
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (14.29%) JBoss
1 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 55 (98.21%) AWS
2 32 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 32 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
2 32 (57.14%) Serverless
3 21 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (8.93%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.57%) Azure
6 2 (3.57%) GCP
6 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (1.79%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (58.93%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 20 (35.71%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (58.93%) Jenkins
2 30 (53.57%) JUnit
3 21 (37.50%) JMeter
3 21 (37.50%) Mockito
4 14 (25.00%) Git
5 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.79%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.79%) jMock
5 1 (1.79%) Maven
5 1 (1.79%) Selenium
5 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (51.79%) Public Sector
2 21 (37.50%) Finance
2 21 (37.50%) Financial Institution
3 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (60.71%) Developer
1 34 (60.71%) Java Developer
2 20 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 19 (33.93%) Java Engineer
3 19 (33.93%) Java Software Engineer
4 14 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 12 (21.43%) Senior
6 9 (16.07%) Senior Java Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (1.79%) Architect
9 1 (1.79%) Development Engineer
9 1 (1.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (1.79%) Software Development Engineer
9 1 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.79%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (96.43%) Spring
2 53 (94.64%) Spring Boot
3 33 (58.93%) REST
3 33 (58.93%) Web Services
4 28 (50.00%) Apache Camel
5 23 (41.07%) Kafka
6 21 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
6 21 (37.50%) Hibernate
7 20 (35.71%) HTML
7 20 (35.71%) jQuery
7 20 (35.71%) WireMock
8 19 (33.93%) Akka
8 19 (33.93%) AngularJS
8 19 (33.93%) RxJava
8 19 (33.93%) Spring WebFlux
9 13 (23.21%) JSON
9 13 (23.21%) XML
10 9 (16.07%) RESTful
10 9 (16.07%) SOAP
11 8 (14.29%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (58.93%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (98.21%) Agile
2 52 (92.86%) TDD
3 49 (87.50%) BDD
4 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
5 23 (41.07%) Scrum
6 20 (35.71%) Fintech
6 20 (35.71%) Process Management
6 20 (35.71%) Workflow
7 19 (33.93%) Concurrent Programming
7 19 (33.93%) Multithreading
7 19 (33.93%) Pair Programming
7 19 (33.93%) Software Engineering
8 18 (32.14%) Kanban
9 15 (26.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (17.86%) SDLC
11 9 (16.07%) High Availability
12 8 (14.29%) DevOps
13 7 (12.50%) Architectural Design
13 7 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
14 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (96.43%) Java
2 25 (44.64%) JavaScript
3 20 (35.71%) Python
3 20 (35.71%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 51 (91.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (91.07%) Kubernetes
2 20 (35.71%) Kibana
3 8 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Dynatrace
1 20 (35.71%) Splunk
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft